rd of doctrines would produce on their minds, he listened for a
short time. In the midst of conversation with each other, one of them
said, 'Well, I know this, if I could get a house near where that
gentleman lives, and could live by my business, I would send all my
children to that school there, and hear him as long as ever I could
live.' While they were conversing about Adam and Eve, and the evil
effects of sinning against God; one of the women said, 'However, you see,
all the punishment that us women get, is sorrow and pains in
child-bearing.' 'Stop, stop,' says one of the men, 'that won't do, Ann,
that won't do. If sorrow and pains in child-bearing be all the
punishment that women are to have, what punishment must those women have
that do not bear children? You are quite wrong, Ann; you women are as
bad as _us_.' This led on to a further discovery, and the conversation
among themselves was truly interesting.

"One of the children telling a lie, the mother touched it on the head,
saying, 'What are you telling lies about? Have you forgotten what the
gentleman said to night? You will go to hell, if you tell any more lies.
Let me never hear you tell another, you bad lad, for God will not take
you to heaven.'

"These, and several remarks about Jesus Christ, afforded no small
pleasure to the preacher, and he hopes that these facts will afford no
small encouragement to the Home Missionary Society.

"Your very humble
Servant,
"J. H. C."

Before the author relates one of the most extraordinary anecdotes with
which he is acquainted, one, of which a King and a dying Gipsy are the
characters, he will relate another interesting account of a visit to a
Gipsy camp, which will, it is hoped, prove that such visits are not in
vain, when made in dependence on the Divine blessing. A Gipsy, in great
distress of mind, and with weeping eyes, came to inform him of one of
their people, who was in great anguish of mind, and entreated him to
visit them at the camp, which was several miles distant. The request was
gladly complied with. On arriving at the tent, he found a woman sitting
in a melancholy attitude on the ground; and distress and anguish were
strongly marked in her countenance. She appeared quite indifferent to
any thing that was said